Yes, and they lost. So, if Microsft copied Apple (and don't forget Apple copied Xerox), what is wrong if somebody copies Microsoft?
Yes, but MS lost because the scope of their UI license from Apple was held to be much broader than Apple believed it to be, allowing MS to use the disputed look-and-feel elements in not just Windows 1.0, but in all subsequent versions as well. And Apple paid Xerox PARC a lot of money to use those ideas and to acquire some of the programmers from the ALTO and STAR programs. If you're going to point at these things as examples, you might want to learn something about them.
The case said nothing about the validity of look-and-feel patents, so unless XPde has a surprisingly broad pre-existing UI license from MS, your example has nothing to do with the parent's (likely correct) fear that MS will sue this project of the face of the earth.
I am getting sick and tired of Gnome telling me how to use my computer. They didn't buy. They don't maintain it. They don't use it. So they need to get the fuck out of my life! You guys have a hard enough time running your own lives without interrupting it to run mine.
Yes, damn those GNOME bastards!! Holding a gun to our heads and forcing us to use their software. If only there were some alternative desktop environments for those who don't like it...
I think this is great news, as I'll finally have a file management program that works the way *I* want it to work. I'm really surprised at the amount of hate this is getting; you can just turn the option off if you don't like it, people.
Prior to this it too often seemed like all the serious file managment options boiled down to: "You can have a file manager that works however you want, as long as it's some minor variation on Windows' browser metaphor".
Romajii is an *approximation* not a direct translation. Do you really think kung fu is how the words are said in Chinese? Or even Volkswagen in German?
Of course not. Hell, I said as much in my post. Did you, perhaps, mean to attach this comment to the parent, and not to my post?
Japanese people don't REVERSE L and R, they just can't pronounce L at all.
This is not particularly correct. Japanese has neither an R nor an L; it has a sound that stands somewhere roughly between the two (whether or not it sounds more like an R or an L depends on the exact speaker, their particular regional accent, and to a certain extent, their gender). And while Japanese speakers of English do not always or even consistently reverse the two consonants, as a consequence of growing up in an environment where the two sounds were conflated, they often have trouble distinguishing the two and have trouble remembering which tongue positioning they should be using for a particular word. Hence it is not uncommon to hear a native Japanese speaker produce an R instead of an L, or vice-versa, in English.
If you want proof of this, just look on any Japanese Katakana or Hirigana chart. These contain all the phonetic sounds in the Japanese language. notice there is no L.
That proves nothing, as Katakana and Hiragana charts contain neither Rs nor Ls; they contain, by definition, Katakana and Hiragana. On an English translation (and the key word here is "translation", as in close approximation of the sounds in english) of the (ra ri ru re ro) portion of the charts they are often presented as R sounds (as this is what they tend to sound like, especially when produced by male speakers in the standard accent), but it is not truly an R (or L sound), as the tounge is at a different position with respect to the upper teeth, and it shares elements in common with the R, L (and to a certain extent D) sounds.
The X-43 was intended to go through some speed reducing manouvers prior to splash down. While I don't know the exact speed it was travelling at the time, "touch down" (The flight engineer's words, not mine) happened after it's speed had been announced as sub-sonic by someone on the NASA feed.
What are ye all on about recovery for??? There is no recovery and never was to be a recovery!!! It was to fall into the ocean after it flew. Read the details before posting.
Tell that to the NASA engineers who announced recovery scant moments after pegasus booster seperation and about 40 seconds before I posted. Point being: the recovery we're talking about has nothing to do with recovery of the X-45's body after sinking into the ocean.
Control lost the feed from the RV around the time it went through mach 5, so it may have got above it before slowing down and (at this very second) touching down in the water.
No, six more years of selling the PS2 (in some form) and it's games. Consider Sony still sells the PSOne and it's games; this article says nothing about not releasing the PS3 before 2010, just about continuing to milk the current platform in addition to it.
Is it just me or has companies like Apple managed to sneak DRM in under our noses while at the same time tricking us into thinking they're cool?
And really, 99c for a song isn't even that great of a deal. That makes a 15 song cd = $15.... Which essencially is the same price it was before. Not only that but you end up with an inflexible lossy-encoded file.
If by "sneak" you mean "implement because without it the major labels would never have agreed to let Apple distribute any of their songs" and "trick" you mean "tell you up front that their files are 'protected' by the weakest/most flexible DRM available from any online store that carries works from the major labels", and if by "$15 per cd" you mean "$9.99 for the majority of the albums", then yes, you're absolutely correct.
Make it so players can use the codec for FREE.
this will make the AAC format as common as Mp3 and take over the world like a wildstorm.
Take that up with the MPEG consortium; you know, the people who actually control AAC (also known as the MPEG 4 audio layer format). You may have heard of one of their other products: the MPEG 1 layer 3 audio format, aka mp3.
There is an online petition to complete this game. Only just over 8000 signatures yet, but maybe it can be slashdotted.
This is the problem with petitiononline; everyone starts a petition without checking to see if there's already a petition going.You posted one with 8000 signatures. Early in this story someone posted one with a mere 1200 signatures. Here's a link to the "official" (insofar as it is linked to from the Save Sam & Max website) petition at petitiononline that has (as of this post) 20,694 signatures.
Some idiot in the marketing department decided that there was no market for Sam & Max 2 (or any adventure game), ignoring the fact that there's always a market for good games.
But aparently the marketing department feels there's a much better market for shitty Star Wars licenses instead.
I read the CNN article, and that was mostly handwaving and attacking of credibility.
So let me get this straight: your claim that Plait didn't debunk Hoagland is predicated on the fact that you did not, in fact, bother to read the actual article in which Plait debunked Hoagland, but instead made up your mind based on the dubious credibility of the reporter from CNN's interpretation of events.
Thank you, sir, for volunteering to so aptly illustrate the "false authority" problem that this story revolves around.
Xorg is a barely couple-month old fork of XFree86 that took place right before XFree switched to their new lisence. Driver compatibility isn't going to be an issue.
Is it illegal to download [and not share] the mp3's of an album if you own that album?
Depends on local laws. Here in Canada that would be legal; in fact, it would be legal even if you didn't own the album. In the US, it would be illegal. In Germany, I have no idea.
I had some of the early developer betas for Mac OS X, which used the Rhapsody UI.
Trust me, it would have elicited far more complaints than the OS X gui ever did. It was just a poorly thought out (with good reason, all the effort was going in to aqua) mismash of OpenStep and OS 9 concepts.
Clearly the government secretly placed an RFID tag in your paper towel sheets in order to track your every spill!!! Placing the towel in the microwave obviously caused the tag to explode, and from now on you should wrap all of you paper towels in tinfoil to prevent the government from spying on you!!!
As others have said, even if the arm could reach, the brush is metal (read: scratchy).
But even if it was a soft cloth brush, the problem with the dust is it's electrostatically charged, and rubbing a cloth against those panels repeatedly isn't exactly going to decrease the dust attraction.
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Yes, and they lost. So, if Microsft copied Apple (and don't forget Apple copied Xerox), what is wrong if somebody copies Microsoft?
Yes, but MS lost because the scope of their UI license from Apple was held to be much broader than Apple believed it to be, allowing MS to use the disputed look-and-feel elements in not just Windows 1.0, but in all subsequent versions as well. And Apple paid Xerox PARC a lot of money to use those ideas and to acquire some of the programmers from the ALTO and STAR programs. If you're going to point at these things as examples, you might want to learn something about them.
The case said nothing about the validity of look-and-feel patents, so unless XPde has a surprisingly broad pre-existing UI license from MS, your example has nothing to do with the parent's (likely correct) fear that MS will sue this project of the face of the earth.
I am getting sick and tired of Gnome telling me how to use my computer. They didn't buy. They don't maintain it. They don't use it. So they need to get the fuck out of my life! You guys have a hard enough time running your own lives without interrupting it to run mine.
Yes, damn those GNOME bastards!! Holding a gun to our heads and forcing us to use their software. If only there were some alternative desktop environments for those who don't like it...
I think this is great news, as I'll finally have a file management program that works the way *I* want it to work. I'm really surprised at the amount of hate this is getting; you can just turn the option off if you don't like it, people.
Prior to this it too often seemed like all the serious file managment options boiled down to: "You can have a file manager that works however you want, as long as it's some minor variation on Windows' browser metaphor".
Choice is a good thing.
Romajii is an *approximation* not a direct translation. Do you really think kung fu is how the words are said in Chinese? Or even Volkswagen in German?
Of course not. Hell, I said as much in my post. Did you, perhaps, mean to attach this comment to the parent, and not to my post?
Or it could have been intended to be what is, in some circles, known as a Joke.
Japanese people don't REVERSE L and R, they just can't pronounce L at all.
This is not particularly correct. Japanese has neither an R nor an L; it has a sound that stands somewhere roughly between the two (whether or not it sounds more like an R or an L depends on the exact speaker, their particular regional accent, and to a certain extent, their gender). And while Japanese speakers of English do not always or even consistently reverse the two consonants, as a consequence of growing up in an environment where the two sounds were conflated, they often have trouble distinguishing the two and have trouble remembering which tongue positioning they should be using for a particular word. Hence it is not uncommon to hear a native Japanese speaker produce an R instead of an L, or vice-versa, in English.
If you want proof of this, just look on any Japanese Katakana or Hirigana chart. These contain all the phonetic sounds in the Japanese language. notice there is no L.
That proves nothing, as Katakana and Hiragana charts contain neither Rs nor Ls; they contain, by definition, Katakana and Hiragana. On an English translation (and the key word here is "translation", as in close approximation of the sounds in english) of the (ra ri ru re ro) portion of the charts they are often presented as R sounds (as this is what they tend to sound like, especially when produced by male speakers in the standard accent), but it is not truly an R (or L sound), as the tounge is at a different position with respect to the upper teeth, and it shares elements in common with the R, L (and to a certain extent D) sounds.
The X-43 was intended to go through some speed reducing manouvers prior to splash down. While I don't know the exact speed it was travelling at the time, "touch down" (The flight engineer's words, not mine) happened after it's speed had been announced as sub-sonic by someone on the NASA feed.
What are ye all on about recovery for??? There is no recovery and never was to be a recovery!!! It was to fall into the ocean after it flew. Read the details before posting.
Tell that to the NASA engineers who announced recovery scant moments after pegasus booster seperation and about 40 seconds before I posted. Point being: the recovery we're talking about has nothing to do with recovery of the X-45's body after sinking into the ocean.
Control lost the feed from the RV around the time it went through mach 5, so it may have got above it before slowing down and (at this very second) touching down in the water.
Success. Launch and recovery went off without a hitch. There's a lot of happy looking people in control right now.
6 more years without a new console?
No, six more years of selling the PS2 (in some form) and it's games. Consider Sony still sells the PSOne and it's games; this article says nothing about not releasing the PS3 before 2010, just about continuing to milk the current platform in addition to it.
Can FairPlay be broken?
It was cracked. Months Ago. By DVD-Jon, originally.
A guide to unencumbering your iTMS purchases can be found here.
Is it just me or has companies like Apple managed to sneak DRM in under our noses while at the same time tricking us into thinking they're cool?
And really, 99c for a song isn't even that great of a deal. That makes a 15 song cd = $15.... Which essencially is the same price it was before. Not only that but you end up with an inflexible lossy-encoded file.
If by "sneak" you mean "implement because without it the major labels would never have agreed to let Apple distribute any of their songs" and "trick" you mean "tell you up front that their files are 'protected' by the weakest/most flexible DRM available from any online store that carries works from the major labels", and if by "$15 per cd" you mean "$9.99 for the majority of the albums", then yes, you're absolutely correct.
Make it so players can use the codec for FREE. this will make the AAC format as common as Mp3 and take over the world like a wildstorm.
Take that up with the MPEG consortium; you know, the people who actually control AAC (also known as the MPEG 4 audio layer format). You may have heard of one of their other products: the MPEG 1 layer 3 audio format, aka mp3.
IBM's OS/2 completely dominates the desktop market.
IIRC, the early versions of OS/2 were a joint IBM - Microsoft effort to replace MS-DOS.
So if MS never existed, neither did OS/2.
There is an online petition to complete this game. Only just over 8000 signatures yet, but maybe it can be slashdotted.
This is the problem with petitiononline; everyone starts a petition without checking to see if there's already a petition going.You posted one with 8000 signatures. Early in this story someone posted one with a mere 1200 signatures. Here's a link to the "official" (insofar as it is linked to from the Save Sam & Max website) petition at petitiononline that has (as of this post) 20,694 signatures.
Some idiot in the marketing department decided that there was no market for Sam & Max 2 (or any adventure game), ignoring the fact that there's always a market for good games.
But aparently the marketing department feels there's a much better market for shitty Star Wars licenses instead.
I read the CNN article, and that was mostly handwaving and attacking of credibility.
So let me get this straight: your claim that Plait didn't debunk Hoagland is predicated on the fact that you did not, in fact, bother to read the actual article in which Plait debunked Hoagland, but instead made up your mind based on the dubious credibility of the reporter from CNN's interpretation of events.
Thank you, sir, for volunteering to so aptly illustrate the "false authority" problem that this story revolves around.
Xorg is a barely couple-month old fork of XFree86 that took place right before XFree switched to their new lisence. Driver compatibility isn't going to be an issue.
Is it illegal to download [and not share] the mp3's of an album if you own that album?
Depends on local laws. Here in Canada that would be legal; in fact, it would be legal even if you didn't own the album. In the US, it would be illegal. In Germany, I have no idea.
how coffee effects different people differently.
It makes you want to do all that, and all it make me want to do is take a crap.
I had some of the early developer betas for Mac OS X, which used the Rhapsody UI.
Trust me, it would have elicited far more complaints than the OS X gui ever did. It was just a poorly thought out (with good reason, all the effort was going in to aqua) mismash of OpenStep and OS 9 concepts.
Clearly the government secretly placed an RFID tag in your paper towel sheets in order to track your every spill!!! Placing the towel in the microwave obviously caused the tag to explode, and from now on you should wrap all of you paper towels in tinfoil to prevent the government from spying on you!!!
That's actually quite a bit higher than I would have guessed.
As others have said, even if the arm could reach, the brush is metal (read: scratchy).
But even if it was a soft cloth brush, the problem with the dust is it's electrostatically charged, and rubbing a cloth against those panels repeatedly isn't exactly going to decrease the dust attraction.